Hi Brandon,
   Or, you can use command+option+I which displays document info. I
believe you have to check the text radiobutton, but I know it will
display using one of those....sorry, I don't use it enough to recall
of the top of my head which one you check.

HTH,
Caitlin

On 2/10/11, Colin M <velocity.focu...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> Hi there!
> This guy has a working text edit word count thing here!
> http://www.softcon.com/mac
> You can download just the script or a whole text edit with that combined!
> It is free!
> Colin!
> Qapla!
> Chegh chew jaj Vam jaj Kak
>
> On 10 Feb 2011, at 17:37, Jonathan C. Cohn wrote:
>
>> A simple applescript should do the trick...
>>
>> tell document 1 of application "TextEdit"
>>      set wordcount to the (count of words) as text
>>      set charactercount to the (count of characters) as text
>> end tell
>> say wordcount & " words and " & charactercount & " characters"
>>
>>
>>
>> On Feb 10, 2011, at 11:46 AM, Brandon Olivares wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Is there a way to get the word or at least character count of text, in
>>> either textedit and/or pages? It's getting annoying that I can't get this
>>> yet.
>>>
>>> Aum namah Śivāya
>>> Brandon Olivares
>>> www.thefulleffect.org - Healing the Whole Person
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>>> that is fulfilling for them.
>>>
>>>
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